NAME

    XML::Chain - chained way of manipulating and inspecting XML documents

SYNOPSIS

        use XML::Chain qw(xc);
        my $div = xc('div', class => 'pretty')
                    ->c('h1')->t('hello')
                    ->up
                    ->c('p', class => 'intro')->t('world!');
        say $div->as_string;
        # <div class="pretty"><h1>hello</h1><p class="intro">world!</p></div>

DESCRIPTION

    ☢ at this moment XML::Chain is in early prototype phase ☢

    This module provides fast and easy way to create and manipulate XML
    elements via set of chained method calls.

EXPORTS

 xc

    A factory method creating new XML::Chain object with a document element
    as provided in parameters. For example:

        my $icon = xc('i', class => 'icon-download icon-white');
        # <i class="icon-download icon-white"/>

    See "c, append_and_current" for the element parameter description.

CHAINED METHODS

 c, append_and_current

    Appends new element to current elements and changes context to them.
    New element is defined in parameters:

        $xc->c('i', class => 'icon-download icon-white')
        # <i class="icon-download icon-white"/>

    First parameter is name of the element, then followed by optional
    element attributes.

 t, append_text

    Appends text to current elements.

        xc('span')->t('some')->t(' ')->t('more text')
        # <span>some more text</span>

    First parameter is name of the element, then followed by optional
    element attributes.

 root

    Sets document element as current element.

        say xc('p')
            ->t('this ')
            ->c('b')
                ->t('is')->up
            ->t(' important!')
            ->root->as_string;
        # <p>this <b>is</b> important!</p>

 up, parent

    Traverse current elements and replace them by their parents.

METHODS

 as_string, toString

    Returns string representation of current XML elements. Call root before
    to get a string representing the whole document.

        $xc->as_string
        $xc->root->as_string

    XML::Chain uses overloading, so string interpolation also works:

        my $xc = xc('overload');
        say "$xc";
        # <overload/>

CONTRIBUTORS

    The following people have contributed to the Sys::Path by committing
    their code, sending patches, reporting bugs, asking questions,
    suggesting useful advice, nitpicking, chatting on IRC or commenting on
    my blog (in no particular order):

        you?

BUGS

    Please report any bugs or feature requests via
    https://github.com/meon/XML-Chain/issues.

AUTHOR

    Jozef Kutej

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

    Copyright 2009 Jozef Kutej, all rights reserved.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.